Catherine Bashiama runs her fingers along the branches of the coffee tree she’s raised from a seedling, searching anxiously for its first fruit buds since she planted it three years ago.

“I plant several coffee varieties, but my specialty is Ruiru ... I can harvest up to 35kg from one tree. This is quite high given the fact that the average tree can produce 10 kilos per tree ...

The 2024-25 crop of coffee beans, for which harvesting starts in October, is likely to be 15-20% lower than normal, Nguyen Nam Hai, the chairman of Vietnam's Coffee and Cocoa Association (Vicofa ...